Very much packages with fc6 tag instead of fc7 in the FC7 tree

Christopher Aillon caillon at redhat.com
Fri Jun 1 16:21:24 UTC 2007


Steve G wrote:
>>Fedora maintainers have not rebuilt these packages for Fedora 7
>>to avoid making end users download the packages for only a release tag
>>change. 
> 
> This is bull. Most people download an iso which contains the old version. IOW,
> you download it *anyways*. The only people this might help is rawhide users and
> people updating via yum - which if I recall, is not officially supported. I'd
> like to see this policy changed in F8 so that admins/users can spot failed
> upgrades or orphaned packages. That is far greater value than saying its to save
> bandwidth when it doesn't.

Actually, many people do network installs.  I have no DVD burner so the 
DVD ISO does me no good.  So I downloaded the boot.iso to load up 
anaconda, and pointed the installer at the right places on the network. 
  Much less downloading as you only update what you need.




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